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one of the most prominent root causes of problems are inaction and close mindedness
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enforce mechanisms through code, not governance
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I’d say f(upbringing)… at least till you’re 18
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https://x.com/apriori0x/status/1832990454272442602?s=46&t=eNTSdGzsN9OtaBqfc5wSug After reading Deutsch, I have a newfound appreciation for physics analogies cc @apriori
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in the cone of shrinking attention spans, alpha lies in moving up the ladder of detail your need for a “short summary” is my opportunity
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books are like psychedelics, in the sense that they can change your mind materially
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been enjoying a lot of japanese retro music lately https://open.spotify.com/track/2BHj31ufdEqVK5CkYDp9mA?si=etFVNPrfToaqWuhZxMfOEg
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unscalable, highly scalable -> scale free fair ordering, unfair ordering -> ordering agnostic valuable, not valuable -> locally determined value what else would you add to the list?
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“you’re not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites.“ this is so true and I always felt it reading this piece on leuloch.dev gave me the external confirmation I was looking for
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/raycast pilled
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what can you learn by observing the tension between continuous and discrete?
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blocks get appended in the direction of increasing entropy block number goes up, entropy goes up
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We humans are not put on this earth to be universe denters who sometimes shave yaks We are put here to be yak shavers who sometimes dent the universe
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i wonder how media consumption mediums affect this talk shows = TV is mainstream podcasts = streaming becomes mainstream idk if crypto’s ownership primitives change things or mixed reality changes things
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colocation is warpdrive
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nice! i missed the pattern
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and in that I think he has can understand zeitgeist very well
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thiel sounds like joker if he didn’t become deranged
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what is the next “podcast”?
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some people like to congratulate themselves on spotting tradeoffs in a choice - that’s only a small part of the decision matrix. the more important decision is to bet whether trade off A will win over trade off B…
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